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Kurt Vonnegut
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group

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